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Wrongly deported Oak Cliff runaway on way home from Colombia

BOGOTA (AP) — Jakadrien Lorese Turner, the 15-year-old Oak Cliff girl who was mistakenly deported to Colombia after claiming to be an illegal immigrant is on her way home.

“The girl, fully identified, left the country this morning,” Colombia Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin told reporters Friday, the Associated Press reported. She said Jakadrien should be back in the United States sometime today and her family in Dallas is preparing to welcome her at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

“I just want to hug her and and let her know that everything is OK now,” Jakadrien’s grandmother, Lorene Turner, said today at her Oak Cliff beauty salon. “Whatever happened in the past is the past. This is a new year.”

Holguin said her ministry is investigating the circumstances of Jakadrien’s entry into Colombia last May. The girl is five months pregnant, and local media have reported that she had been staying at a home for expectant mothers in Bogota since Dec. 1.

Ilva Miryam Hoyos, Colombia’s attorney general for children, said the teen told authorities that she became pregnant while in Colombia.

“The important thing for Colombia is that the girl is where she should be: with her family,” said Holguin.

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